Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's revolution, the liberation movements in all the third world countries, which when everyone tries to get started the U.S. stops.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Country, Mean, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  War, Age, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Art, Hippie, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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